Frank Supplisson was in court yesterday in Montargis. Former LR president of the Agglo de Montargis (between April 2018 and June 2020) Had compared, late in the evening, before the Criminal Court of Montargis in the context of 2 cases, one for embezzlement of public funds, the other for illegal taking of interest.
“Bon Gîte” affair: Frank Supplisson recognizes “an error”
The first case concerns “Le Bon Gîte” : a real estate company which notably rents furnished apartments on rue Dorée and place de la République in Montargis. Three apartments were rented by the Agglo de Montargis in 2019, and made available to medical students for six months, the time of their internship at the nursing home.
Problem: Frank Supplisson, who signed these contracts as president of the Agglo, held 22% of the shares of the company “Le Bon Gîte” – a mixture of genres which poses a problem and which cost the Agglo de Montargis nearly 6,000 euros. “It would have deserved much greater vigilance on my part “, recognizes at the bar the former elected “but I wanted to help the nursing home, everything has since been reimbursed.“
The Agglo de Montargis did not file a civil action
The second case concerns the restaurant “Du Pain sur le Plate” », which received 7,000 euros in aid from the city of Montargis to renovate its terrace in 2017 – a restaurant that is part of a building whose owner is none other than Frank Supplisson… “But this renovation took place on the occasion of the huge restructuring project of the Benedictine crossroads and in the end, it was not a gain because the restaurant lost its parking lot and went bankrupt. », He contests.
In both cases, they are indeed infringements, retorts the prosecutor Loïc Abrial. “The rental of the apartments did not even give rise to a deliberation by the Agglo! It is also astonishing and worrying that the Agglo de Montargis did not file a civil action.“As for the terrace affair,”this is a textbook case of illegal taking of interest“considers the prosecutor who called for a very heavy sentence : 8 months suspended prison sentence, but also a fine of 15,000 euros, 3 years of ineligibility and 3 years of ban from managing any company.
Judgment on December 1
“There was no enrichment, Frank Supplisson is not a thug “, rebelled his lawyer Me Camille Radot, who denounced a “disproportionate” indictment. Frank Supplisson is now 48 years old and no longer has an elected mandate – “he is vaccinated from politics” – he is, however, at the head of several companies. “This would be to prohibit him from exercising his professional activity, when there was no harm to the community and it is not the business of the century.“, insisted the lawyer, suggesting a dispensation from the sentence.
2 months suspended prison sentence were required against the employee of Bon Gîte, for complicity. For his part, the anti-corruption association Anticor 45 filed a civil action and claimed € 1,000 in damages: “It’s a question of principle, explained one of its activists“, José Moreau. The judgment will be rendered on December 1.